Re: Formula 1
Reply #95 –
Interesting to read Hamilton has equalled or is about to equal a bunch of Schumacher's records.
Hamilton is probably the best of the bunch at the moment, and he has maintained a long period of tenancy in the fastest car, which means he betters his team-mates regularly. Does that make Hamilton the driver equal of Schumacher, Senna or some other greats?
I do realise there was a lot of politics in the Schumacher era, but I don't think there is any less now, it's just delivered differently.
I'm not sure modern F1 is a true measure of driver, for me there is too much remote control influenced by engineers and technology, technology that allows cars to be reconfigured on the fly. I preferred the old days, when how a car left the grid was how the car performed, all configured and setup in advance.
I particularly dislike drivers begging over the radio mid-race for permission to dial up more power.
Agree in part, it still takes a hell of a lot of skill to drive these things, they are so blisteringly fast compared to the older cars which despite being very loud, are not a patch on these hybrid ones speed wise. Hamilton as driver is as good as there has ever been, he is clean and fast when he needs to be. He is a master at qualifying and rarely crashes. I understand he is in the best car but there has always been another guy in the same car and he has shown them a clean pair of heals. He is also a racer and by that, I mean he can negotiate his way through the field when he finds himself at the back. Someone like Damon Hill for example was blisteringly fast but could negotiate an F1 car in traffic to save himself. A front runner.
As a person, he is giving me the s h i t s with his BLM stuff in the way that he is cracking it with the drivers who wont take a knee. He is acting like a spoiled brat which is is turning me off. Spose Ill be branded racist for not agreeing with him.
By the way, its interesting to hear him take this so very seriously and be so vocal about statues symbolizing racism being torn down
and thrown in rivers yet he happily takes cheques from Mercedes and Hugo Boss (plastered all over his clothing) who have chequered pasts with respect to use of slave labour.